Day 1

How to Tap Into Your Community for Funding

Explore strategies leveraging the collective power of your organization's community and board for impactful fundraising. Learn how to initiate successful fundraising campaigns, unlock the potential of annual giving, and harness the strength of community support.

Thursday, January 25, 2024

12:00 - 2:00 EST

Day 2

How to Successfully Fundraise Throughout the Year

Dive into the keys to sustained fundraising success throughout the year. Discover how to diversify your strategy with private fundraising events, cultivate and retain donors beyond giving days, and mobilize supporters through effective peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives.

Thursday, February 1, 2024

12:00 - 2:00 EST

Day 3

How to Find and Organize Your Funding

Gain insights into effective grant writing and learn how it can impact your fundraising efforts. Explore the journey from a donor's initial contribution to creating a sustainable donor management ecosystem that ensures lasting relationships and consistent funding.

Thursday, February 8, 2024

12:00 - 2:00 EST

Day 4

How to Capture Funding Through Marketing, Social Media, and AI

Delve into modern fundraising techniques involving marketing, social media, and artificial intelligence. Understand how AI can impact fundraising strategies, explore the importance of storytelling in brand engagement, and discover how small nonprofits can make a big impact through meaningful experiences.

Thursday, February 15, 2024

12:00 - 2:00 EST

Nathan Chappell, MBA, MNA, CFRE

Senior Vice President, DonorSearch AI

Nathan, a renowned thought leader, AI inventor, and award-winning author, one of the world’s foremost experts on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and generosity. He is founder of Fundraising.AI, a 2,000+ member initiative responsible for publishing the world’s first Framework for Responsible AI for Fundraising. His fundraising experience spans more than two decades where he led large-scale fundraising programs and multi-billion dollar campaigns. As the Senior VP of DonorSearch AI, he leads AI deployments for major nonprofits.

He’s also the co-author of the award-winning book, The Generosity Crisis: The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity’s Greatest Challenges. His expertise is regularly featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and more. Nathan serves as an advisor for the OpenAI Users Forum, the AI for Good Foundation, the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), and the Forbes Technology Council and holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame, University of Redlands, University of Cambridge, and MIT.

Candace Cody

Director of Events, Community Boost

Candace Cody is a results-driven Digital Events Manager at Community Boost, with 8+ years of experience empowering nonprofits to thrive. As a skilled webinar host and virtual event organizer, Candace provides invaluable digital marketing expertise. 

Leading The Nonprofit Marketing Summit since 2022, she has empowered over 63,000 nonprofit professionals to scale their impact. 

Kelly McLaughlin

Founder and CEO

Kelly McLaughlin is a creative thinker, dynamic speaker, systems creator, and nonprofit champion who loves putting together the puzzle pieces to get your individual giving program running efficiently and sustainably.

Kelly started fundraising as a five-year-old, trying to change the world one bake-sale at a time, and never stopped—running fundraising campaigns through high school and college. She's been a professional fundraiser since 2009. She created the FIT Framework for Fundraising Sustainability to teach nonprofits how to craft, build, and scale individual giving systems that banish burnout—allowing her clients to create greater impact, less stressed staff, and happier donors.

Mitch Stein

Head of Strategy

Mitch is a social entrepreneur, community builder and impact innovator. He is currently the Head of Strategy for Chariot, a Donor-Advised Fund solution for nonprofits to get more of the $230 billion sitting in DAFs. He previously founded a nonprofit marketplace and community called Pond after leaving his role as a VP on Goldman Sachs' Technology Investment Banking team. He's a long-time board member at The LGBT Center of NYC and active alum of the Startup Leadership Program NYC.

Floyd Jones

Director of Community & Partnerships

Floyd Jones serves as the Director of Community & Partnerships at Givebutter, the world’s first completely free end-to-end fundraising platform powering $1B+ in donations for millions of changemakers, where he supports the company’s growth strategy via partnerships, sponsorships, strategic campaigns, and special events.

Throughout his career, Floyd has worked tirelessly on building social impact communities around the world, collectively raising over $20M for grassroots organizations and speaking at over 50 conferences across America. His work and content has been featured by LinkedIn, ESPN, AfroTech, Variety, and Wired magazine, and has been sponsored by NIKE, Whole Foods, VISA, NBA2k, and more.

Floyd is also a pioneer for social justice. In 2023, he founded BackBlack, a multi-platform initiative that has raised over $1.3M for 770 Black-led nonprofits.

Baily Keller

Senior Program Manager, Strategic Partnerships

Baily is an experienced Senior Program Manager at TechSoup. She works with Fortune 500 companies to help them develop and scale their philanthropy programs while also being an advocate for the nonprofit sector, helping with equitable access to technology. Baily graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is located in Boston, MA.

Patrick Kirby

Founder and CEO

Patrick Kirby is the Founder of Do Good Better Consulting and a believer that “we’ve always done it this way” is the most dangerous phrase in the English language.

Patrick has spent over a decade working in nearly every capacity in the nonprofit industry, for organizations of all shapes and sizes, and strives to ‘Do Good Better’ every day. From organizing $10,000 cure walks to $1 million galas, Patrick’s passion lies in creating creative solutions to make fundraising less boring.

Alice Ruhnke 

President 

Alice is the President of GrantStation. She joined the team after 20 years of working in or with the nonprofit community. In the trenches, she raised over $45 million and worked with hundreds of organizations to help them increase their capacity to raise funds. Alice is the organization's content expert and is responsible for online education, partnership development, and working with the talented GrantStation staff to provide quality resources to help the nonprofit community secure funding. Alice received both her Bachelor of Science degree in Human Development and Family Relations and Master of Arts degree in Education/Counseling Psychology from the University of Connecticut. In August 2013, she completed a Certificate Program in Appreciative Inquiry from Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management.